Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

80 reviews

rachael_jo's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Medical content

mjadeh's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

pagesonfire's review against another edition

challenging dark informative lighthearted reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

vale_reading's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Violence, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Cannibalism, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia and War

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

coco78337's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical content

gretchenplz's review against another edition

4.0

This book was great, if a bit morbid. I thought it was a really thorough look at what happens after we die.

The chapter that detailed research on head transplants especially turned my stomach!

It was a tad dry at some points, but it was super informative and I definitely learned a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

b10tch's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.5

Very interesting. Read this through several meals and am realizing how high my gore tolerance is. (Because boy is there a lot of it).  My favorite thing about Mary roach is that she makes nonfiction accessible. Her books are often narrative based, humorous, and lack the density that I find makes many nonfiction books hard to finish.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

besidemyshelf's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, and Medical content

dionaeau's review against another edition

dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful, humorous read about what happens after death. Well worth the read, even so long after being published. Descriptions in this book about various decomp stages as well as how bodies are handled and looked are quite graphic, which wasn’t a problem for me, but should be taken into consideration.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, and Death

emmettdakool's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Blood